Trends in foreign agricultural investment

The IAWG has published a series of studies that analyse trends in foreign agricultural investment to contribute to evidence-based policy-making and informed decisions on investment.

Important findings

Foreign agricultural investment has increased over the last decades, reaching a peak in the late 2000s, against the backdrop of the global food price crisis

While global agricultural FDI flows were lower recently (2013-2014) than in the aftermath of the food price crises of 2007-2008 and 2011-2012, their average level is still higher than in the early 2000s

Agricultural FDI outflows from developing countries have increased significantly since the global food price crisis of the late 2000s